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by Alan_Dillman 1514 days ago
Right? Its so close to being wonderful, and I really like the raspiOS desktop. I think we're right around the corner from a new ARM frontier opening up.

Tomorrow (today!) my experiment is a minimal systemd linux. Thanks, something in your writing reminded me of that, I had just started reading about it last night. My inspiration was the "minimum linux live" project, which of course is not really a practical start point, and would take a ton of work to build up, but none of the tiny linuxes like DSL and Puppy Linux scratch my itch. So I think a tear down is my path forward, then once I find that, start from scratch and aim for that target.
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sitkack 1514 days ago
This means you can outfit a developer or student anywhere in the world with a functioning workstation for under $200, monitor, desk, keyboard, mouse, everything.

We might find it somewhat anachronistic, but it really could help bring millions of people out of poverty.

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godDLL 1511 days ago
The average engineering disposition might make you want for bigger, better workstation -- but you could, in fact, do 97% of engineering jobs with just X11, pdf reader, browser and a terminal. Jobs don't actually require you to run 100+ chrome tabs, install Steam, webcam in a video conference, etc. Those are there to endear you to the machine, so that part of you lives at work. The whole concept is not to the benefit of the employee.
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Alan_Dillman 1513 days ago
I agree!
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Jaruzel 1513 days ago
Arch Linux.

I've recently started playing with Arch again, after being fully on the Debian bandwagon. This time around, I found getting it onto a blank HDD, and up as far as twm (with personal customisations) way more easier that I remembered. Compared to Debian on the same aging test laptop, it's SO light and responsive. I'm definitely going to invest more time into building out a good lightweight install.

https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/broadcom/raspberry-...

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